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Link Inserter installation.

The kit is available for download here , includes a single Perl script, link-inserter.pl, and a module, Escape.pm. Unpack the tar file into a working directory
cd /path/to/working
tar -xzf /path/to/download

The module must be installed in the Perl module search path for your system, which you can get at CPAN. See the perlmodlib and perlmodinstall man pages for more information on this.

The link-inserter.pl file needs to be placed in some system location, possibly /usr/local/libexec. It must be executable in the context of the mailer system. There are no security issues with this software.

Usage:

The script takes an email message on standard input, and writes the entire message out to standard output with the affero rating link appended to the bottom.

WARNING: The current link inserter does not handle MIME encoded messages. The message will be passed through correctly, but no link will be seen.

The syntax of the script is
link-inserter.pl [-l listname@host [-p payprofile]]

An example of this is adding an affero link to messages destined for a mailing list manager in a sendmail or postfix environment. There are before and after lines:

bestlist: "|/pathto/listmanager listargs"

bestlist: "|/pathto/link-inserter.pl -l bestlist@affero.net -p pay1 | /pathto/listmanager listargs"